Deliveries

Although natural gas and electricity deliveries went off pretty much without a hitch in the subzero Northeast region last week, key House lawmakers used the situation as a soapbox to call for the “obstructionist senators” to pass the ominbus energy bill (HR 6) when Congress returns this week.

In an update of restrictions for Friday’s gas day, Texas Eastern had removed one cutting IT-1 deliveries into the M-3 market zone to zero. See the bulletin board for details.

El Paso Natural Gas customers scored a key victory when FERC rejected a tariff proposal that would have allowed the pipeline to credit shippers with only partial reservation charges in the event a scheduled maintenance kept it from delivering natural gas.

El Paso Natural Gas customers scored a key victory Friday when FERC rejected a tariff proposal that would have allowed the pipeline to credit shippers with only partial reservation charges in the event a scheduled maintenance prevented it from delivering natural gas.

The massive Shell-led Sakhalin II oil and gas development project offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East is likely to be delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the U.S. West Coast before the decade is over, according to Steve McVeigh, CEO of the Sakhalin Energy Investment Co.

The massive Shell-led Sakhalin II oil and gas development project offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East is likely to be delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the U.S. West Coast before the decade is over, according to Steve McVeigh, CEO of the Sakhalin Energy Investment Co.

With National Petroleum Council projections that liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries into the United States could grow to 15 Bcf/d by 2020 from about 2.5 Bcf/d currently, all of the majors are beginning to take significant positions in the domestic LNG market. ExxonMobil said last month that it is looking at four sites for U.S. LNG terminals (see NGI, Oct. 20), and last week Shell announced its own offshore Louisiana LNG terminal, which would be in direct competition with one already planned by ChevronTexaco.

The Illinois Manufacturers Association (IMA) is fighting the Illinois governor’s proposal to extend a 5% sales tax to all deliveries of natural gas in the state. The proposal, which has not been fully developed, is under discussion in the Illinois legislature as part of the budget plan announced by Gov. Rod Blagojevich April 9 to overcome a deficit expected to total $5 billion over two years.

The Illinois Manufacturers Association (IMA) is fighting the Illinois governor’s proposal to extend a 5% sales tax to all deliveries of natural gas in the state. The proposal, which has not been fully developed, is under discussion in the Illinois legislature as part of the budget plan announced by Gov. Rod Blagojevich April 9 to overcome a deficit expected to total $5 billion over two years.